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EPCOT Innoventions West demolition - March 15 2021

Posted: Monday March 15, 2021 10:29am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The final section of the former Innoventions West has now been removed at EPCOT'S Future World, bringing to an end the majority of the major demolition in the park.

EPCOT Innoventions West demolition - March 15 2021

Guests passing underneath Spaceship Earth are now presented with a very different view.

EPCOT Innoventions West demolition - March 15 2021

Although all of the vertical sections have been removed, there is still plenty of work left to do on the ground.

EPCOT Innoventions West demolition - March 15 2021

Crews continue to work on the are to prepare it for the upcoming Moana inspired water gardens.

EPCOT Innoventions West demolition - March 15 2021

There is no word yet on an opening timeframe for Journey of Water Inspired by Moana, although best estimates put it somewhere in 2022.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana

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Disstevefan11 day ago

Does that mean no Water filtration plant behind the scenes tour?

Looks like they’re finally adding plantings behind the Journey of Water pump facility to conceal it from the monorail. Hopefully that means they’ll reconfigure the meet and greet queue soon, but we shall see.

UNCgolf1 day ago

I'm just curious. I think it would be nice if there was some separation but I haven't been there since the new hub was opened so I don't have a good sense of where everything is in relation to everything else. It also depends on what the entertainment actually is. The Encanto sing-along they're opening with, e.g., has the potential to be pretty annoying for people elsewhere in the hub if it's really loud (that's the kind of thing that works better in a theater or something similar IMO), but other things might not be.

KeithVH1 day ago

Well, that definitely looks like local city park quality level work . . .

MisterPenguin1 day ago

I thought we were criticizing Disney for the lack of live entertainment...

UNCgolf1 day ago

I wonder how loud it will be. I think they could potentially overdo it and kind of ruin the whole area with noise pollution; I'm sure not everyone in the garden area is going to want to have to listen to whatever is happening on the stage.

tparris1 day ago

Large speakers/sound system being installed on the ceiling above the stage in CommuniCore Plaza.

tparris1 day ago

Gotcha. I’m no expert in that field, so that’s good to know.

James Alucobond2 days ago

Pretty sure they can at least stain and treat it the same way the surrounding concrete is treated in order to better conceal it.

CntrlFlPete2 days ago

cool!! I plan on telling folks that the strange floating rectangle of triangles is an abstract titled 'The Borg ship that assimilated Heihei'.

tparris2 days ago

It’s concrete, they can’t exactly just paint it. What they should have done is cut out the immediate surrounding area and replace it in sections. I would think the intentional cracks all over the ground would make it relatively easy to blend in new sections with the existing ones.

Andrew252 days ago

Hoping they paint it soon... but I'll take this over the ugly wooden boxes

HauntedPirate2 days ago

tparris2 days ago

The temporary boxes around the bases of the circular light fixtures just outside Connections Cafe have been removed, revealing the new bases. They look fine, however the obvious imperfections and different color where they shaved off the “mounds” really bothers me. That part doesn’t look good at all imo